Mark Zuckerberg calls for end to miscarriages taboo

The Facebook chief executive reveals deeply personal details of the struggle
he and his wife went through to have a child and calls for more open
discussion

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan married in 2012Photo: AP

By Nick Allen, Los Angeles

8:57PM BST 31 Jul 2015

Mark Zuckerberg has described how he and his wife suffered a series of miscarriages and called for more open discussion of the subject.

The 31-year-old Facebook co-founder and his wife Priscilla Chan, 30, announced that they are now expecting a baby girl and were "very hopeful".

But Mr Zuckerberg described the miscarriages as a "lonely experience" that should be talked about more.

He said: "We want to share one experience to start. We've been trying to have a child for a couple of years and have had three miscarriages along the way.

"You feel so hopeful when you learn you're going to have a child. You start imagining who they'll become and dreaming of hopes for their future. You start making plans, and then they're gone. It's a lonely experience.

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